Ancestral Trails 2016 » Mary HOLFORD (1562-1625)

Personal data Mary HOLFORD 

• She was born in the year 1562 in Nether Peover, Cheshire.
• She died on August 15, 1625 in Vale Royal, Cheshire, she was 63 years old.
• A child of Christopher HOLFORD and Elizabeth MAINWARING

Household of Mary HOLFORD

She is married to Hugh CHOLMONDELEY.

They got married in the year 1583 at Cholmondeley, Cheshire, she was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Lettice CHOLMONDELEY  1586-1611 
2. Hugh CHOLMONDELEY  1591-1655 
3. Robert CHOLMONDELEY  1584-1659

Notes about Mary HOLFORD

Mabel Holford was born in 1562. Mary was the daughter and sole heir of Christopher Holford, of Holdford, esq.

Mary had a brother Thomas who was baptised on 3 February 1581, at Davenham St. Wilfrid, Cheshire.

From Wikipedia:
Lady Mary Cholmondeley (1563-1625) was a British litigant in a forty-year-long dispute over her father's estate. She was the wife of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, the younger and had eight children with him.

Cholmondeley was born as Mary Holford in late 1562 or January 1563 to Christopher Holford and Elizabeth Mainwaring in Holford, Great Budworth, Cheshire, England and christened (baptised) on January 20, 1563. She married Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas but he soon died. Around 1581, she married Sir Hugh Cholmondeley. They had eight children, named Robert, Hatton, Hugh, Thomas, Francis, Mary, Lettice, and Frances, before Sir Cholmondeley's death in 1601. Mary Cholmondeley died on August 15, 1625 at the age of sixty-three in Vale Royal, Whitegate, Cheshire, England and was buried the next day in the church at Malpas, Cheshire, England. The Cholmondeley sisters are said to be Mary's daughters or nieces. c.1600-1610

Legal dispute over family estate
She came to notice following the legal disputes over Holford Manor and the estates of her father, Christopher Holford, who died on 27 January 1581. His half-brother, George Holford of Newborough, was the next male-heir of the Holfords, but the recently married Mary challenged his legal claim to the land. The lawsuit between them went on for forty years. Finally, around 1620, they came to a settlement, under which Mary Cholmondeley received the Holford manorhouse and George Holford received the manor of Iscoit in Flintshire. The case was not settled but intercession led to Mary agreeing to share the estate with those who disputed her title. However it was Mary that inherited the manor. She renovated and enlarged the Holford manorhouse.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, in 1616 Mary Cholmondeley bought Vale Royal Abbey and its surrounding land from the Holcroft family. She built an Elizabethan house on the site, rebuilt the old hall, and in 1625 added a lath and plaster wing. James I held court at Vale Royal in 1617 for three days and dubbed Mary Cholmondeley the "bolde lady of Cheshire" because she rebuffed his offer to advance the political careers of her sons. She lived at Vale Royal from 1616 to her death.

Mary Cholmondeleigh, the wife of Hugh, was buried at Malpas, Cheshire, on 16 August, 1625. An Inquisition post morten held 1 Charles I found Lady Mary had given all of her property, except a place called New Bottoms, to her fourth son Thomas Cholmondeley, esq, and his heirs male, on 16 January, 21 James I.
SOURCE: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holford-15

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